In 1699, a fourteen year-old girl, Honor O’Flynn, is kidnapped in Ireland and brought to Maryland to be sold as a contract bride. She is devoutly Catholic and promises her father that she will remain chaste, return home, and become a nun. Throughout her odyssey, she is frustrated in her schemes to accomplish those goals and fights with God and the Man who buys her contract.

It's my privilege to have read the first novel, Bailey's Blood, and to have called Jim Bailey a friend. I was his pastor and he shared with me the vision and some of the stories he has compiled and to be sure they are the stuff from which great spell-binding novels in nature come. I've also read some of this new novel and it, too, has the quality of greatness. Thanks Jim for continuing to use your God given talents productively.

~ Dr Robert Orr, Vice President, Academic Development at CaliforniaStateChristianUniversity